I made this cake as requested by keri  for his housemate’s farewell party. He asked for a different cake than the one I already baked before, so I choose this Opera Cake. I stumble upon this cake’s recipe recently by accident, to be honest I have never even heard of this cake until recently ^^. Opera cake, in honor of the Paris Opera ¹ consists of layers of Joconde a.k.a Almond Sponge Cake soaked in Coffee Syrup, a layers of Coffee Buttercream and Chocolate Ganache.

My Joconde is a bit too thick guess, should be thinner, so I could have more layers. That way it will not be too dry, since the the coffee syrup didn’t soaked all the way in. I never had a chance to try it before so i’m not really sure how it suppose to taste. But then again a lots of dessert that I have tried to make, I’ve never ate it before, so it’s not really a big deal I suppose ^^.

Credit for Photographing and/or Editing to Fauzan and Firdaus

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Click here to view the Opera Cake’s recipe

I called this recipe as Original Chocolate Cake in my recipe book, cause it was the first recipe I made, not that because  it’s the original chocolate cake existed ^^.

I love this recipe because of the consistency of it’s scrumptious taste every time I made it. I made this cake more often than any other cakes so far.  I got the recipe from my aunt, but the recipe I used now was change a bit, for difficulty to find one of the ingredients here in germany, by using suggestion from my mother. It tastes the same if not better ^^. It was also the first cake I made in germany.

I hadn’t make this cake for quite some times already, so I thought a comeback would be appropriate.

Credit for Photographing to Nik and Zaira.

Together with Asi and Hakim, we baked this cake for Ben’s birthday party and brainstorm some Idea for the Cake decoration. We had some crazy Idea but it looks kind of difficult to make, so at the end we decided for ‘B’ form, b for ben ^^. I’m more confidance with my chocolate tempering now, although I did have to start it again at some time when making it. We were late because of me ^^.

Click here for the Original Chocolate Cake’s recipe.